Linux Introduction

[Jason White]

John G. Heim <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> wrote:
>I think you've gotten a lot of good advice in this thread. The only thing 
>I'd add is that if you are getting into linux with the goal of ultimately 
>finding a job as a linux systems administrator, you should eventually work 
>toward learning the command line and you should ultimately end up using 
>either fedora or debian (or both). 

Knowing the shell very well is a prerequisite to being a competent and
effective Linux user, and even more so for anyone who wants to administer
systems for other people, professionally or otherwise.

Speakup would be a good starting point, since it has very few dependencies and
can run even when large parts of the system are unavailable - precisely the
situations in which an administrator's skills are put to the test.

I would suggest learning to use the shell and Linux tools as a user first,
proceeding thereafter to acquire administrative skills.